Christian unity Archives

Unity is first sign of true Christian witness, pope says

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Jun 12, 2019

The Catholic Church gives an authentic witness of God’s love for all men and women only when it fosters the grace of unity and communion, Pope Francis said.

German bishop calls for Christian unity at Corpus Christi procession

Catholic News Service, Global Church
Jun 3, 2018

The bishop of the Diocese of Essen, Germany, voiced support for allowing a Protestant married to a Catholic to receive Communion during his diocese’s annual Corpus Christi procession May 31.

Russian Orthodox head says religion key to beating terrorism, deputy is skeptical on unity

Global Church
May 2, 2018

Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church says only religion can overcome terrorism, but his top deputy is skeptical about unity between Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

God-given sexual identity has inherent beauty, dignity, say faith leaders

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Dec 16, 2017

In an open letter Dec. 15, a group of 20 Catholic bishops and other religious leaders described as “deeply troubling” the movement today “to enforce the false idea — that a man can be or become a woman or vice versa.”

When Americans tried – and failed – to reunite Christianity

Associated Press, Church in the US
Nov 8, 2017

By 1900, atheists and agnostics were becoming more prominent in the United States. Anxious Protestant religious leaders started to argue in favor of a united Christianity to stop the spread of these ideas. For this group, unity meant more than cooperation or mutual understanding. It meant the actual reunion of Protestantism and Catholicism.

Christian unity pioneer could be new American saint

Church in the US
Jul 28, 2017

Now that the diocesan phase of the sainthood cause of Father Paul Wattson is closed and all the documentation has been shipped off to Rome, the ball’s in the court of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Born in 1863, Wattson was a convert from Episcopalianism and went on to be an ecumenical pioneer, helping develop the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.